Despite the drop in death rates, in reply to rising virus cases, European nations are enforcing new lockdown measures in hopes of slowing the virus’ second wave across the continent.
As we have reported since the onset of the COVID War, and now again with the new rules and regulations being imposed, a laundry list of unscientific orders and restrictions vary by country.
AUSTRALIA: Melbourne has experienced its latest round of violent protests over Premier Daniel Andrews’ ongoing restrictions that imposed draconian lockdown rules including, curfews, travel bans, limits on home visitors unless they are caregivers, etc.
The clashes occurred at the city’s Shrine of Remembrance, a memorial for all soldiers from the country who served during wartime. 7News reported that hundreds of protesters and city police clashed, and protesters who refused to give their names were arrested.
Victoria Police arrested 16 people and issued 96 penalties. This comes after the city experienced more than 100 days of lockdown. Victoria has a population of 6.3 million and recorded 21 new cases last Saturday. Last week, there were 17 hospitalizations and about 253 active cases.
The protesters insist Andrews’ mandates have been too restrictive and call on the leader to resign and end all lockdowns. The restrictions have limited retail businesses to provide online services only since August and have five million living under a stay-at-home order, according to Reuters.
A protest website said, “Restore our freedoms now.”
Jennifer Westacott, Chief Executive of the Business Council of Australia, told Reuters, “We cannot go on like this. Victorians cannot hang on week to week. People are at a financial and mental breaking point.”
TRENDPOST: It was reported that starting Wednesday, Premier (Dictator) Andrews of Victoria declared friends and family in Melbourne will be able to visit, but strict rules still exist. Making up the numbers as he goes along, and absent a scintilla of scientific data, Andrews declared that households will be able to host two visitors from another household within their 25-kilometre limit – but only once per day.
Inventing another set of numbers, Andrews decreed that hospitality venues are allowed to seat a maximum of 20 people indoors and 50 outdoors. For weddings, only ten people are allowed to attend. But, if you die, 20 can come to your funeral.
Putting his mouth where his heart and brain are, “expert” Andrews said, “It is not over. This virus is not going away. It is going to continue to be a feature of our lives. It is going to be a feature of our lives every day until a vaccine turns up.”
Indeed, the know-it-all expert that he is – a boy who’s been sucking off the public tit all his life and never having a real job after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics – Danny knows that the virus “is not over… it is not going away… it will be “a feature of our lives every day… until a vaccine turns up.”
We note his arrogant, imbecilic statement to exemplify the level of sociopaths, psychopaths, pathological liars, freaks, and low life fools that are running and ruining life on earth.
And, the Premier is prepping the Peasants of Slavelandina to roll up their sleeves and get ready to get vaccinated because if they don’t, he will make them.
IRELAND: In anticipation the worst of the virus is yet to come, Ireland is leading the way by imposing a second nationwide lockdown.
Prime Minister Micheál Martin told the country’s citizens, “It won’t be the same Christmas that we’ve enjoyed in the past.” The reasons for the new lockdown are because the scientific genius had come to the conclusion that he saw “evidence of a potentially grave situation arriving in the weeks ahead is now too strong.”
All so-called “nonessential” businesses and restaurants are forced to close their dining rooms for the next six weeks, and citizen have to stay three miles within their homes. The Irish government announced fines up to €2,500 and/or six months imprisonment for failing to abide by the COVID rules.
Protests broke out shortly after the announcement, and nine people were arrested last week at anti-lockdown rallies, the Irish Times reported. Demonstrators clashed with police officers in Dublin, and some officers reportedly employed their batons.
ITALY: On Saturday, the unelected Prime Minister of Italy, Giuseppe Conte, announced new restrictions: closing down cinemas, theaters, gyms, ski slopes and swimming pools… and forcing restaurants to stop in-house dining at 6:00 PM.
Police in Naples and Rome clashed with protesters who took to the streets over the new restrictions.
As we reported, the Italian government was the first western nation to impose strict anti-virus measures in March, while enforced face mask wearing, social distancing measures, curfews, and travel restrictions were obeyed and which the police enforced. Fines in Italy for not wearing a mask can reach up to €1,000.
Despite the failure of the draconian orders, Vincenzo De Luca, President of the Campania region, doubling down on the government’s failures, told Forbes, “We need to make one last effort to get things under control. We need to shut everything down for a month, for 40 days.”
POLAND: On Friday, Poland closed down swimming pools and gyms and won’t allow more than five people to socialize… and locked down restaurants, bars, and cafes except for takeout orders. On Saturday, when anti-lockdown protesters marched in Warsaw, police deployed tear gas and used force to end the demonstration.
The event was named, “International March of Freedom” and took place alongside similar protests around the world. It drew a crowd of thousands, reports RMF24.
As reported by Notes from Poland, “The organizers of the protests said they opposed ‘global political and financial forces’ that are using the pandemic as a means of ‘generating panic and fear’ in order to introduce ‘unlawful and scientifically unjustified restrictions’ that ‘restrict civil rights’ and ‘build a totalitarian state’… and the draconian measures were ‘destroying companies and the economy.’”
SPAIN: A new state of emergency and nationwide curfew was declared by the Spanish government on Sunday.
“We are living in an extreme situation… it is the most serious in the last half-century,” Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared on Sunday.
Except for the Canary Islands, for the next two weeks, the nation will be on curfew from 11:00 PM to 6:00 AM. “Let’s stay at home,” said Sánchez, who is reported to have extended the state of emergency through 9 May 2021.
CZECH REPUBLIC: Last Wednesday, Prime Minister Andrej Babis apologized to the public for having to employ new restrictions that will impact the economy in order to get a grip on the virus.
“I am sorry for the new restrictions that will impact the lives of business owners, citizens, employees,” he said, according to CNN. “I am also sorry for having de facto ruled out the possibility of this happening because I could not imagine that this would happen.”
Roman Prymula, the country’s newly appointed health minister, made the announcement of the new restrictions, which include restaurant closures, limits on movements, and a strict mask mandate.
Two days after the announcement, Prymula was seen leaving a restaurant without a face mask, which prompted Babis to call on Prymula to leave his post.
“If we want the people to abide by the rules… it is us who have to set an example,” Babis said, according to the Associated Press. “We can’t preach water and drink wine.”
BELGIUM: A nationwide closure of bars and restaurants and a curfew of midnight to 5 AM have been imposed. Brussels issued a new round of restrictions last week, forcing shops to shut at 8 PM; gyms, theatres, and cinemas to close down; and a curfew of 10 PM to 6 AM. The restriction will last until at least 19 November.
Masks will once again become mandatory in public spaces in Brussels, and public gatherings of more than four people are banned. “We won’t be issuing warnings anymore,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said. “Those who don’t follow the rules get a $294 USD fine, to be collected immediately.”
LUXEMBOURG: Last Friday, Luxembourg ordered a nighttime curfew and curbs on social contacts.
TREND FORECAST: As depicted by the new, wide array of lockdown rules and regulations being imposed without the support of any scientific facts, and, despite having imposed strict draconian orders that shut down nations earlier this year that did not accomplish what the governments said they would, they insist on doubling down on failure.
Totally absent in the reporting by governments and the media of these new restrictive measures is Sweden’s success of not locking down, not robbing its citizens of their freedom, and not destroying its economy.
Also ignored by governments and the media are the facts that while virus cases are going up, death rates are declining, and for those under 50 years old, the recovery rate is 99.98, according to the CDC. Despite these facts, ineffective government COVID sanctions are destroying millions of businesses and tens of millions of lives across Europe and around the world.
As millions lose everything and have nothing left to lose, the protests that are now erupting will dramatically escalate. Germany’s Robert Koch Institute, a national disease control center in Berlin, was attacked with incendiary devices this past Sunday.
Crime, violence, and corruption will intensify as economic conditions worsen. New populist parties will replace many existing ones. As the “Greatest Depression” worsens, support for both the European Union, the euro, and NATO will decline.
